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	Podcast:		Inside Appalachia
	Episode:		Maybe The Best Classroom Is Right Outside Your Door, Inside Appalachia
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:54:19
	Publish Date:		2020-05-08 12:30:14
	Description:		With kids cooped up inside their homes and classroom instruction happening remotely, we thought it would be a great time to take another listen to an episode of “Inside Appalachia” that originally aired in 2019. We explore the power of getting children outside to learn, a topic that’s perhaps even more important now than ever. Doctors agree that getting kids outdoors is safe during the pandemic as long as we maintain social distancing so we are looking at why learning outdoors is good for all of us, but especially kids. “I think there’s a difference between opening up a science textbook and learning about water quality when you can go outside and be in your own watershed,” Hannah Spencer said. Spencer is a co-founder of the Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership school, or Mountain SOL, an outdoor education program based in Morgantown. Much research today supports the notion that people thrive outside, but other studies show we spend the vast majority of our lives in poorly
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